Poem: "I Knew I Wasn't Poor" By Jan Beatty
"I knew I wasn’t poor, / because I had a choice: / buy tampons or birth control pills."
Jan Beatty's fifth full-length book, Jackknife: New and Collected Poems, is forthcoming in Spring, 2017 from the University of Pittsburgh Press.
"I knew I wasn’t poor, / because I had a choice: / buy tampons or birth control pills."
"I knew I wasn’t poor, / because I had a choice: / buy tampons or birth control pills."